The Balsillie Papers provides clear, concise, peer-reviewed articles about today’s most complex issues in global governance and international affairs.
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Africa’s AI Governance Requires Understanding Regional Priorities to Contain Socio-economic Gaps
Mulugeta F. Dinbabo, Oluwaseyi Agboola and Bezawork Kassa
AI holds promise but may increase income inequality as it threatens the displacement of low- to middle-skilled workers in routine cognitive tasks.
RECENT PAPERS
The Carney Government’s Build-Partner-Buy Policy and Canadian Aerospace Sovereignty
Shawn DonnellyThis paper provides insight into the state of Canada’s procurement, investment and technology policies in the aerospace sector and makes recommendations on continuing or adapting existing measures.
Africa and the America First Global Health Strategy: Critical Reflections
Howard SteinThe US, under President Trump, has replaced previous approaches to global health with the America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS). This paper focuses on the motivation and impact of this approach on important areas such as African digital sovereignty and the ability to contain emergent diseases.
FAIR-A4: A Governance Model for Auditable, Accountable, Actionable and Attributable Agentic AI
Abbas Yazdinejad, Hadis Karimipour and Ann Fitz-GeraldThis paper surfaces existing gaps in the governance of agentic AI systems. To enable governance of decisions by agentic systems operating at machine speed, we propose FAIR-A4.